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The chief court of England in early Norman times. It was established by William the Conqueror in his own hall. It was composed of the great officers of state, resident in the

One who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. Atwill v. Ferrett, 2 Blatchf. 39, Fed. Cas. No. 640;

In feudal law. The right of marriage, which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony. A guardian In socage had also the same right,

In the civil law. An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk. Letting a house altogether, instead of in chambers. 4 Kent, Comm.

In old English law. Adultery. Termes de la Ley.

As distinguished from a criminal action, it is one which seeks the establishment, recovery, or redress of private and civil rights. Civil suits relate to and affect, as to the parties against

1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that

In the law of evidence. The act or mode of giving authority or legal authenticity to a statute, record, or other written instrument, or a certified copy thereof, so as to render

An action to procure a judicial division of joint property. Hunter. Rom. Law, 194. It was analogous in its object to proceedings for partition in modern law.

An action for things removed; an action which, in cases of divorce, lay for a husband against a wife, to recover things carried away by the latter, in contemplation of such divorce.

A foreign commercial term for the proprietor of an action or share of a public company’s stock; a stockholder.

The fair or reasonable cash price for which the property could be sold in the market, in the ordinary course of business, and not at forced sale; the price it will bring

A repugnant act cannot be brought into being, i. e., cannot be made effectual. Plowd. 355.

At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.

TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s

On complaint of.

Suspicion lies heavy on the unfortunate side.

In the law of contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.

In the civil law. To apply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhi- bcre diligcntiam, to use care. Adhihcre vim, to employ force.